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View Poll Results: If you suddenly got a million dollars - what would you buy?
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I'll buy a new sportscar! Maybe five!
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8 |
5.97% |
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I'll buy a new house! Maybe two!
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11 |
8.21% |
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I'll buy a new computer! Maybe a hundred!
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16 |
11.94% |
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I'll buy expensive gifts for my special someone!
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3 |
2.24% |
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I'll travel around the world - twice!
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4 |
2.99% |
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I'll buy a yacht ... or an affordable naval destroyer
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2 |
1.49% |
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I'll go to Vegas and lose it all in one night!
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1 |
0.75% |
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I'll buy TV ad space for the Superbowl - showing me singing/dancing
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0% |
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I'll invest it in stocks or bonds
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9 |
6.72% |
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I'll start a new business or company
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11 |
8.21% |
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I'll quit my job or go into early retirement
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19 |
14.18% |
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I'll let it sit in a bank and gain interest
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24 |
17.91% |
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I'll donate it to charity (awww)
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2 |
1.49% |
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I'll donate it to Canis Lupus via Paypal (w00t!)
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9 |
6.72% |
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Other (please specify)
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15 |
11.19% |
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08-20-2002, 08:13 PM
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Amo ng Kapahamakan
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Sa Dulo ng Walang Hanggan
Posts: 11,775
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If you won a million dollars - what would you buy?
Okay, here is something new - a situational poll 
If by some godly twist of luck, you suddenly get your hands on a million dollars ($USD, of course), either through an inheritance, a lucky lotto number, a big bag of money in the middle of the street or maybe you just plain robbed a bank (you bastard), what ever are you going to do with it? What are you going to buy? Where are you gonna be using it for?
Here are some logical choices ... since different people have different ways of wasting away their fortune (hehe), I have conveniently added the "Other" option ...
So close your eyes, dream of all that moola, and click away, you rich person you...
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08-20-2002, 08:36 PM
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I am lag.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Unknown
Posts: 8,161
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The first thing I would buy is the car I have always wanted. Beyond that, I would buy a house, setup a huge gaming room full of PC's networked, and then Donate money to OTS.
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08-20-2002, 08:37 PM
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Freak
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Texas
Posts: 993
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all of the above  hehhe, i would probably buy a computer, then i would help my parents pay bills for stuff they want, like to finish with the payments on the house, and buy a new car, the rest would go for me to buy my own stuff  , but id invest it and make more money to 
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History does not repeat itself. It is the peoples ignorance of history that causes them to make mistakes.
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08-20-2002, 08:42 PM
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I AM OTS
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: lurking in the woods
Posts: 14,706
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stocks and bonds  |
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08-20-2002, 09:22 PM
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Staff Member
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,446
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Definitely early retirement.
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08-20-2002, 10:10 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 4,831
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Hookers and cocaine! Oh, wait, no... buy a house... preferably somewhere close to the ocean in a nice warm climate.. pay off my car loan... hmm.
I'd definately quit my current job, though.
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08-20-2002, 10:47 PM
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Regular Member
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Edge of the Earth
Posts: 45
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I'll buy a ranch, and support a wildlife conservation program  |
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08-20-2002, 11:07 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Denver, Earth
Posts: 4,289
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Quote:
Originally posted by Shalome
Hookers and cocaine!
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!!!!11
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08-21-2002, 04:15 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Idaho
Posts: 2,762
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If I Had $1000000
I'd buy you a monkey (haven't you always wanted a monkey?)
Sorry couldn't resist the Barenaked Ladies plug.
I would probably pay off my current debt and house. The invest a lot of it, so I can retire when I'm like 40-50. Probably put some away to pay for my kids college. |
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08-21-2002, 04:26 AM
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A million today isn't much. Not something to say "i quit my job and retire early".
I would bank it and invest in government bonds and other sure money investment options.
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08-21-2002, 06:24 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 4,831
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In addition to buying a house and paying off the car, I'd invest most of it (at least in a long term CD or something). And Chako, when I said I'd quit my current job, I meant that i'd quit this job and find something more personally fulfilling to do if I didn't have to worry so much about money.
Like teach.
Or at least stop living in a 2 person household where neither person likes their job, but you're both afraid of losing your job, so you both keep lucrative jobs that neither of you are happy with just for stability's sake. |
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08-21-2002, 08:23 AM
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what
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Posts: 6,882
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I'd buy a condo, a nice car, and pay off all my loans. After that, I'd have nothing to spend my paychecks on... and I'd have a lot of money to burn.
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08-21-2002, 08:33 AM
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I demand a better future
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Posts: 801
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I'd invest the money into my business... wo0t
Drive the cometition into the ground... then retire a happy man.
I love capitalisim
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08-21-2002, 08:41 AM
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Ex-Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 2,596
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Well, first thing I would do is take out a contract on the dancing banana! 
Buy a new home, not too big. Put some away for college for my son, and clear up some bills. The rest put away in a bank. Still work but maybe retire early. |
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